As soon as the election results were announced, handing a suspiciously thin margin of victory to Kenya's president, Mwai Kibaki — whose policies of favoring his own ethnic group have marginalized about half the country — all the elements lined up for the violence to explode.
The government of President Tsirananana fell into disfavor and was overturned in 1972, and Rakoto Frah's close association with the unpopular former head of state led the artist to be marginalized for the first half of the administration of his successor, Didier Ratsiraka (1975 1993).
No society can achieve its potential with half of its population marginalized and disempowered.
Because women and girls constitute half the world's people and are disproportionately marginalized, significantly more resources are necessary to address gender discrimination.
As my column shows, power-challenging African-American politicians have been marginalized in this way for the better part of a half century.
"They have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party," he said, pointing out that nearly half of the current Republican House delegation is now Southern.
Despite the fact that half of the world's population is female, women's rights have become marginalized as a "minority issue".
In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th.
No such kinks marginalize "House of Holes".
